It’s Halloween season so it’s time to get spooky! If you’re looking for the best Family Halloween Events in Halifax and surrounding areas for Halloween 2022, you’ve come to the right place. Here is our freak-alicious Ultimate Guide to Spooktacular Family Halloween Events in Halifax – and Beyond. Be sure to keep checking back because this guide will be updated regularly.
Note: Most of these events are family-friendly, but there may still be a frightening element. Feel free to contact the event venue if you’re not sure whether an event will suit your family.
Pumpkin Patches & Corn Mazes In and Around Halifax
All Month Long | Head to a local farmyard to have some fall fun getting lost in a corn maze or picking your own pumpkin from a local patch! For more information, click here.
Apple Picking In and Around Halifax
All Month Long | Head to a local orchard to have some fall fun picking your own bushel of apples! For more information, click here.
Community Trunk-or-Treat events in HRM
Close to Halloween |Collecting candy and showing off Halloween costumes has always been associated with long walks, late nights and ringing doorbells. However, in recent years, a new approach to Halloween has emerged. Say hello to the trunk-or-treat event!
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Historic Properties Celebrates Safe Halloween
October 29 | Historic Properties wants to ensure that your family enjoys the best of what spooky season has to offer. Join the annual Safe Halloween celebration watch as one of Halifax’s oldest and most recognizable landmarks is transformed into a courtyard full of Halloween fun. For more information, click here.
Pumpkin People Festival in Kentville (October 1-29)
It’s October… and that means visitors have arrived in Kentville. Join in the Fall festivities at the ‘Kentville Pumpkin People Festival’.
Alderney Landing’s Bluenose Ghosts Festival (October 7-9, 13-16, & 20-31)
Dare to be scared in Dartmouth. This year’s Bluenose Ghosts Festival promises lots of fun…and fear at Alderney Landing.
Pumpkin People Festival in Kentville (October 1-29)
It’s October… and that means visitors have arrived in Kentville. Join in the Fall festivities at the ‘Kentville Pumpkin People Festival’.
The Great Big Boo (October 22, 23, 29, 30 2022)
The ultimate family-friendly interactive Halloween celebration, the Great Big Boo, is coming to the Cineplex Theatres in Halifax, Dartmouth, and Lower Sackville
The Unicorn Theatre presents ‘Spooks” (October 29)
Join in the spooky fun and get in the Halloween Spirit with the Unicorn Theatre’s Halloween production of ‘Spooks’.
Halloween at Halifax Public Libraries (multiple dates throughout October)
Halifax Public Libraries are celebrating Halloween with a series of spooktacular events including a Monster Mash Family Dance Party, Halloween craft activities and costume parties galore!
You’ll Pay to Get in, but you’ll Pray to Get Out of the Bloodfields, Truro (Multiple Dates)
The terrifying Bloodfields at Riverbreeze Farm, near Truro, is worth a visit if you like being scared. Think of a convincingly creepy backstory, live actors, and buckets of blood and gore. This year there are 4 haunted houses and 2 haunted mazes!
Phantoms Freakshow Haunted House in Kentville (Multiple Dates)
The 2021 haunt is located in the Main Street Station, Kentville, and will have you spooked to the core! Warning: This haunted house is not suitable for young children or the faint of heart.
Halifax Citadel Ghost Walk (Multiple Dates)
Join a Halifax Citadel Ghost Walk – Friday, and Saturday evenings until the end of October.
The Halifax Ghost Walk (Multiple Dates)
The Halifax Ghost Walk meets at the Old Town Clock on Citadel Hill on select evenings until the end of October.
